29JAN: Fun in the sun

Man, what a gorgeous weekend. It was so nice in fact, that I started tilling my garden using only a pitch fork. I got an area about 10' x 6' done, along with moving all the rocks and pulling all the sod.

Myu back was tired but felt loosened by the effort.

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